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Num 33:47

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 33:47 · Douay-Rheims

“And departing from Helmondeblathaim, they came to the mountains of Abarim over against Nabo.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

254

A.D.

Origen Patristic

c. A.D. 184–253

“There follows next the stage at Abarim opposite Nabau [Nebo], which is "passage." But Nabau means "separation." For when the soul has made its journey through all these virtues and has climbed to the height of perfection, it then "passes" from the world and "separates" from it, as it is written of Enoch, "And he was not found, because God had taken him across."”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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